Tomorrow marks a year that you’ve all been teaching virtually. What you’re doing is remarkable and although we would rather be teaching on campus, your dedication to making the students’ educational experience dynamic is worth celebrating. You all deserve a restful and relaxing spring break!
ES Teachers on campus on Tuesday, March 23rd
We don’t know when (if) we will get word for ES to return to campus, however, in preparation for the return, ES teachers will need to be on campus on Tuesday, March 23rd to get trained on the hybrid technology set up and more formally prepare their classroom space. I know this message is going out late on the day before spring break. To follow up, I will send a more detailed email on Monday, March 22nd. By then we might know more.
Specialist Morning Meeting Rotation Schedule
Here is the new morning meeting specialist rotation starting March 22nd. Please reach out to Dave if you have any questions about the schedule.
Teacher Collaboration Meetings Moving to Wednesday
Beginning the week of March 29th, Teacher Collaboration Meetings will be held on Wednesdays from 7:55-8:25 a.m.
TA Evaluations
Prior to sharing the TA evaluations with Dave, please make sure that you have included your digital signature for both teachers and teaching assistants.
Futures Plan
Many thanks to Bindu, Mary Kelly, Morgen, and Vigna for their membership on and participation in the Community Planning Team! Read about our recent retreat and the Futures Plan here.
HR Teachers and Specialists Communication
HR teachers, please communicate to specialists any student concerns, especially if you know they are having trouble completing independent work, so they don’t reach out to parents unnecessarily. Thank you.
Posting Videos on Youtube (repeat announcement)
As part of tightening up our digital security, we’re looking at safer ways for teachers to post videos without using Youtube. We haven't landed on a solution yet but below is one way to make it less distracting for students who are watching your teacher videos on Youtube. Please use one of the methods below to make viewing on Youtube safer for our students. We need to do our part to make learning online as safe as possible.
If you use Youtube, share the videos as part of a presentation instead of a direct link to Youtube. You can do this with some simple HTML "magic." Here's how you can make a slight adjustment to your YouTube embed code to stop the video suggestions that appear: add ?rel=0 after the final character of the YouTube embed code. Easy!
This site will give you more details about how to do this.
You can also use Safeshare (https://safeshare.tv). There is a limit to the amount of videos you can upload on Safeshare but it’s an option for you as well. Please reach out to Priya V. if you have any questions or need support.
Another tip adding videos to Youtube safely (thank you Julia):
You can force a youtube video to play in full screen and it will simply restart the video once it has finished instead of showing ads or offering suggestions of what to watch next. You do this by adding a hyphen between the t and u in the address. So instead of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO4XFZmvYOo you embed https://www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=MO4XFZmvYOo:
Coaches Corner
An education, research, and policy organization dedicated to equity and promoting healthy racial identity development in youth. We support organizations, families, and educators in taking action to disrupt racism in young children.
Last week, we saw how some books that were highly regarded for a long time simply aren’t fit to be read to children and needed to be removed from publication. This week, here is a resource providing excellent options to use in class to counter and resist negative stereotypes and more. Check out the conscious kid website. Here are some highlights:
From the Counselors
Have a wonderful spring break!
Lynn, Dave, and Elliot
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